Nullify the Sharify Scheme

Since it seems like we are on the roll, I decide to give another commercial Flash application protection scheme a try. This time our candidate is a tool called Sharify. For the record, Sharify is NOT marketed as an intellectual protection scheme. Instead, it is a license management system that claims to turn any Adobe Air applications into a shareware.

My goal is to see if one can easily bypass the licensing scheme. After all, if you were to depend on Sharify to protect your revenue stream, you may want to know if it actually works. In this example, I use the sample application included with the Sharify library.

What is in Mochicrypt Secret Encryption Sauce?

I stumbled upon Mochicrypt recently in a news article announcing the purchase of Mochi Media by Shanda Games. For those of you who are not familiar with Mochi Media, it is a California-based company that provides game developers with tools to monetize and distribute Flash-based games.

One of their producs, Mochi Live Update Service, claims to help secure games by providing an extra layer of encryption to protect against decompiling. I was interested to see if this intellectual property protection scheme can be extended to other Flash-base applications. Of course, the best way to test this protection scheme is to see if I can break it easily.